On 10/09/2013 5:22 PM, Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS) wrote:
So if I only use 4G wireless, why should I pay for your fiber-to-whereever connection?
There's been lots of good reasons already. 4G is nowhere in sight around my home, can't use it if I wanted to. If I could, then I would need static IP address and unlimited data as I have with a couple of business connections I use (DSL) ... those connections also include most phone calls as well (all fixed line calls in AU and all Optus network mobiles). Get me a 4G plan that competes and I'll use it too as my DSL connections are a great distance from the exchange [read slow] and I'm lucky to even get DSL at all!!!! I will benefit, short term, from FTTN, but I still consider that solution to be almost 100% wasted monies, because the solution is not up to scratch and the running cost of FTTN are very, very high (as too are the costs of running wireless networks), but there are many more reasons. The power efficiency of wireless is about 5%, that is 95% of the power used is wasted -- more waste. FTTN is the only economic solution, even if it did cost triple what it was projected -- but it won't, that's just another LNP furphy [read big fat lie] that they got away with, helped along the way by Murdoch and Co. Cheers A.